Mr Paul Scott

  • Senior Lecturer in Law (School of Law)

Biography

Paul Scott studied law at the University of Glasgow (LLB, PhD) and the London School of Economics (LLM). His doctoral studies were funded by the University of Glasgow and the Modern Law Review. He was previously Lecturer in Public Law at the University of Southampton.

Research interests

Paul has a range of interests across the areas constitutional and administrative law, as well as in aspects of legal and constitutional theory. Of particular interest to him are republican constitutional theory, Scottish public law, and national security constitutionalism (the focus of much of his current research). He has published - and has work forthcoming - in a range of specialist and general legal journals.

Publications

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Number of items: 47.

2025

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2025) National Security Constitutionalism in the Commonwealth Five Eyes States. Series: Hart studies in justice and security. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781509971947

2024

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 and Ó Floinn, Micheál ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9236-5979 (2024) Technical backdoors and legal backdoors: regulating encryption in the UK. King's Law Journal, (doi: 10.1080/09615768.2024.2444720) (Early Online Publication)

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2024) Judicial biography in the national security constitution: Lord Diplock and a ‘rather silly little secret racket’. Modern Law Review, 87(3), pp. 604-639. (doi: 10.1111/1468-2230.12856)

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2024) The Crown, consent, and devolution. Edinburgh Law Review, 28(1), pp. 61-85. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2024.0873)

2023

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2023) ‘State threats’, security, and democracy: the National Security Act 2023. Legal Studies, (doi: 10.1017/lst.2023.39) (Early Online Publication)

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2023) Corruption and the constitutional position of the Overseas Territories. Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal, (doi: 10.1080/14729342.2023.2210920) (Early Online Publication)

Scott, Paul ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2023) Strong Executive, Weak Parliament?’. In: Wheatle, Se-shauna and O’Loughlin, Elizabeth (eds.) Diverse Voices in Public Law. Series: Diverse voices. Bristol University Press, pp. 53-69. ISBN 9781529220759

2022

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2022) Authorising crime: the Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Act 2021. Modern Law Review, 85(5), pp. 1218-1244. (doi: 10.1111/1468-2230.12751)

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2022) ‘Economic well-being’ in national security law and practice. King's Law Journal, 33(3), pp. 358-385. (doi: 10.1080/09615768.2022.2135252)

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2022) The first interception provision: Section 4 of the Official Secrets Act 1920. Journal of Legal History, 43(3), pp. 352-379. (doi: 10.1080/01440365.2022.2140487)

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2022) K D Ewing, Joan Mahoney and Andrew Moretta, MI5, The Cold War, and the Rule of Law. Edinburgh Law Review, 26(2), pp. 280-282. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2022.0772)[Book Review]

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2022) New Labour's secret national security constitution. In: Gordon, Michael and Tucker, Adam (eds.) The New Labour Constitution: Twenty Years On. Series: Hart studies in constitutional law. Hart Publishing: Oxford. ISBN 9781509924646

2021

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2021) Renouncing British citizenship. Journal of Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law, 35, pp. 7-27.

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2021) Writing the United Kingdom constitution. Parliaments, Estates and Representation, 41(1), pp. 126-127. (doi: 10.1080/02606755.2020.1767860)[Book Review]

2020

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2020) Responding to COVID-19 in Scots Law. Edinburgh Law Review, 24(3), pp. 421-426. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2020.0657)

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2020) Book review: (B)ordering Britain: Law, Race and Empire by Nadine El-Enany. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 71(2), [Book Review]

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2020) The Privy Council and the constitutional legacies of empire. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 71(2), pp. 261-283.

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2020) Law, non-law, and torture: from the consolidated guidance to the principles. Public Law, 2020(Jul), pp. 488-507.

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2020) Passports, the right to travel, and national security in the Commonwealth. International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 69(2), pp. 365-395. (doi: 10.1017/S0020589320000093)

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2020) The rule of law against judicial review? The quartet in Scots administrative law. In: Fifty Years of Modern Judicial Review. Hart Publishing. (Accepted for Publication)

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2020) Once more unto the breach: R (Privacy International) v Investigatory Powers Tribunal. Edinburgh Law Review, 24(1), pp. 103-109. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2020.0605)

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2020) The contemporary security vetting landscape. Intelligence and National Security, 35(1), pp. 54-71. (doi: 10.1080/02684527.2019.1665688)

2019

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2019) Hybrid institutions in the national security constitution: the case of the Commissioners. Legal Studies, 39(3), pp. 432-454. (doi: 10.1017/lst.2018.44)

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2019) Parliament's Secret War by Veronika Fikfak and Hayley J Hooper. Public Law, 2019(1), pp. 228-232. [Book Review]

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2019) Faith in authority and the (political) constitution. King's Law Journal, 30(1), pp. 21-42. (doi: 10.1080/09615768.2019.1594616)

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2019) Secrecy and surveillance: lessons from the law of IMSI catchers. International Review of Law, Computers and Technology, 33(3), pp. 349-371. (doi: 10.1080/13600869.2019.1569872)

2018

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2018) The National Security Constitution. Series: Hart studies in security and justice. Hart Publishing: Oxford. ISBN 9781509911011 (doi: 10.5040/9781509911042)

2017

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2017) Secret evidence in civil proceedings resulting in restrictive measures in the United Kingdom. In: Vogel, Benjamin (ed.) Secret Evidence in Court Proceedings. Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law. (Accepted for Publication)

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2017) General warrants, thematic warrants, bulk warrants: property interference for national security purposes. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 68(2), pp. 99-121.

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2017) Ouster clauses and national security: judicial review of the investigatory powers tribunal. Public Law, 2017(3), pp. 355-362.

Iljadica, Marta ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5414-7866 and Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2017) Intellectual property and national security. Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, 12(1), pp. 49-61. (doi: 10.1093/jiplp/jpw178)

McCorkindale, Christopher, McHarg, Aileen and Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2017) The courts, devolution, and constitutional review. University of Queensland Law Journal, 36(2), pp. 289-310.

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2017) Authority to carry in the United Kingdom: the right to travel, the privatisation of security and the rule of law. European Public Law, 23(4), pp. 787-810.

2016

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2016) An inherent jurisdiction to protect the public interest: from PII to ‘secret trials’. King's Law Journal, 27(2), pp. 259-275. (doi: 10.1080/09615768.2016.1220689)

Scott, Paul ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2016) Democracy, law and relationships of domination – a response to ‘can republicanism tame public health?'. Public Health Ethics, 9(2), pp. 134-135. (doi: 10.1093/phe/phw023) (PMID:27551293)

Scott, Paul ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2016) Case comment: R (Wang Yam) v Central Criminal Court. European Human Rights Law Review, 2016(2), pp. 195-200.

2015

McCorkindale, Chris and Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2015) Public interest judicial review in cross-border perspective. King's Law Journal, 26(3), pp. 412-439. (doi: 10.1080/09615768.2015.1071532)

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2015) The vanishing law of Crown act of state. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 66(4), pp. 367-386.

Scott, Paul ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2015) Entick v Carrington and the legal protection of property. In: Tomkins, Adam and Scott, Paul (eds.) Entick v Carrington: 250 Years of the Rule of Law. Series: Hart studies in comperative public law (9). Hart Publishing: Oxford, pp. 131-160. ISBN 9781849465588 (doi: 10.5040/9781474202268.ch-005)

Scott, Paul ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2015) Political publicity and improper purposes: Aberdeen City Council’s independence intervention. Public Law, 2015(2), pp. 275-289.

Tomkins, Adam and Scott, Paul ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (Eds.) (2015) Entick v Carrington: 250 Years of the Rule of Law. Series: Hart studies in comperative public law. Hart Publishing: Oxford. ISBN 9781849465588

2014

Scott, Paul ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2014) The Sovereignty of Law: Freedom, Constitution, and Common Law, by T.R.S. Allan, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), 361pp., hardback, £50.00, ISBN: 978-0-19-968506-6. Law Quarterly Review, 130, pp. 162-165. [Book Review]

Scott, Paul ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2014) Crossing the Rubicon: closed hearings in the Supreme Court. Edinburgh Law Review, 18(1), pp. 88-93.

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2014) On 'domestic' law and the law of human rights: Osborn v The Parole Board. King's Law Journal, 25(2), pp. 147-154. (doi: 10.5235/09615768.25.2.147)

2013

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2013) (Political) constitutions and (Political) constitutionalism. German Law Journal, 14, pp. 2157-2184.

2011

Scott, Paul ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2011) Constitutional Review Under the UK Human Rights Act 1998, by Aileen Kavanagh, (Cambridge University Press, 2009), 455 pp., paperback, £34, ISBN: 978-0-52-168219-0. European Human Rights Law Review, 2011(6), pp. 752-754. [Book Review]

Scott, Paul ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2011) NW Barber, The Constitutional State Oxford: Oxford University Press (www.oup.com), Oxford Constitutional Theory, 2010. xiii + 199 pp. ISBN 9780199585014. £50. Edinburgh Law Review, 15(3), pp. 484-486. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2011.0063)[Book Review]

This list was generated on Fri Jun 20 20:41:37 2025 BST.
Number of items: 47.

Articles

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 and Ó Floinn, Micheál ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9236-5979 (2024) Technical backdoors and legal backdoors: regulating encryption in the UK. King's Law Journal, (doi: 10.1080/09615768.2024.2444720) (Early Online Publication)

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2024) Judicial biography in the national security constitution: Lord Diplock and a ‘rather silly little secret racket’. Modern Law Review, 87(3), pp. 604-639. (doi: 10.1111/1468-2230.12856)

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2024) The Crown, consent, and devolution. Edinburgh Law Review, 28(1), pp. 61-85. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2024.0873)

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2023) ‘State threats’, security, and democracy: the National Security Act 2023. Legal Studies, (doi: 10.1017/lst.2023.39) (Early Online Publication)

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2023) Corruption and the constitutional position of the Overseas Territories. Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal, (doi: 10.1080/14729342.2023.2210920) (Early Online Publication)

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2022) Authorising crime: the Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Act 2021. Modern Law Review, 85(5), pp. 1218-1244. (doi: 10.1111/1468-2230.12751)

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2022) ‘Economic well-being’ in national security law and practice. King's Law Journal, 33(3), pp. 358-385. (doi: 10.1080/09615768.2022.2135252)

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2022) The first interception provision: Section 4 of the Official Secrets Act 1920. Journal of Legal History, 43(3), pp. 352-379. (doi: 10.1080/01440365.2022.2140487)

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2021) Renouncing British citizenship. Journal of Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law, 35, pp. 7-27.

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2020) Responding to COVID-19 in Scots Law. Edinburgh Law Review, 24(3), pp. 421-426. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2020.0657)

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2020) The Privy Council and the constitutional legacies of empire. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 71(2), pp. 261-283.

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2020) Law, non-law, and torture: from the consolidated guidance to the principles. Public Law, 2020(Jul), pp. 488-507.

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2020) Passports, the right to travel, and national security in the Commonwealth. International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 69(2), pp. 365-395. (doi: 10.1017/S0020589320000093)

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2020) Once more unto the breach: R (Privacy International) v Investigatory Powers Tribunal. Edinburgh Law Review, 24(1), pp. 103-109. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2020.0605)

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2020) The contemporary security vetting landscape. Intelligence and National Security, 35(1), pp. 54-71. (doi: 10.1080/02684527.2019.1665688)

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2019) Hybrid institutions in the national security constitution: the case of the Commissioners. Legal Studies, 39(3), pp. 432-454. (doi: 10.1017/lst.2018.44)

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2019) Faith in authority and the (political) constitution. King's Law Journal, 30(1), pp. 21-42. (doi: 10.1080/09615768.2019.1594616)

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2019) Secrecy and surveillance: lessons from the law of IMSI catchers. International Review of Law, Computers and Technology, 33(3), pp. 349-371. (doi: 10.1080/13600869.2019.1569872)

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2017) General warrants, thematic warrants, bulk warrants: property interference for national security purposes. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 68(2), pp. 99-121.

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2017) Ouster clauses and national security: judicial review of the investigatory powers tribunal. Public Law, 2017(3), pp. 355-362.

Iljadica, Marta ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5414-7866 and Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2017) Intellectual property and national security. Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, 12(1), pp. 49-61. (doi: 10.1093/jiplp/jpw178)

McCorkindale, Christopher, McHarg, Aileen and Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2017) The courts, devolution, and constitutional review. University of Queensland Law Journal, 36(2), pp. 289-310.

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2017) Authority to carry in the United Kingdom: the right to travel, the privatisation of security and the rule of law. European Public Law, 23(4), pp. 787-810.

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2016) An inherent jurisdiction to protect the public interest: from PII to ‘secret trials’. King's Law Journal, 27(2), pp. 259-275. (doi: 10.1080/09615768.2016.1220689)

Scott, Paul ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2016) Democracy, law and relationships of domination – a response to ‘can republicanism tame public health?'. Public Health Ethics, 9(2), pp. 134-135. (doi: 10.1093/phe/phw023) (PMID:27551293)

Scott, Paul ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2016) Case comment: R (Wang Yam) v Central Criminal Court. European Human Rights Law Review, 2016(2), pp. 195-200.

McCorkindale, Chris and Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2015) Public interest judicial review in cross-border perspective. King's Law Journal, 26(3), pp. 412-439. (doi: 10.1080/09615768.2015.1071532)

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2015) The vanishing law of Crown act of state. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 66(4), pp. 367-386.

Scott, Paul ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2015) Political publicity and improper purposes: Aberdeen City Council’s independence intervention. Public Law, 2015(2), pp. 275-289.

Scott, Paul ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2014) Crossing the Rubicon: closed hearings in the Supreme Court. Edinburgh Law Review, 18(1), pp. 88-93.

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2014) On 'domestic' law and the law of human rights: Osborn v The Parole Board. King's Law Journal, 25(2), pp. 147-154. (doi: 10.5235/09615768.25.2.147)

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2013) (Political) constitutions and (Political) constitutionalism. German Law Journal, 14, pp. 2157-2184.

Books

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2025) National Security Constitutionalism in the Commonwealth Five Eyes States. Series: Hart studies in justice and security. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781509971947

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2018) The National Security Constitution. Series: Hart studies in security and justice. Hart Publishing: Oxford. ISBN 9781509911011 (doi: 10.5040/9781509911042)

Book Sections

Scott, Paul ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2023) Strong Executive, Weak Parliament?’. In: Wheatle, Se-shauna and O’Loughlin, Elizabeth (eds.) Diverse Voices in Public Law. Series: Diverse voices. Bristol University Press, pp. 53-69. ISBN 9781529220759

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2022) New Labour's secret national security constitution. In: Gordon, Michael and Tucker, Adam (eds.) The New Labour Constitution: Twenty Years On. Series: Hart studies in constitutional law. Hart Publishing: Oxford. ISBN 9781509924646

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2020) The rule of law against judicial review? The quartet in Scots administrative law. In: Fifty Years of Modern Judicial Review. Hart Publishing. (Accepted for Publication)

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2017) Secret evidence in civil proceedings resulting in restrictive measures in the United Kingdom. In: Vogel, Benjamin (ed.) Secret Evidence in Court Proceedings. Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law. (Accepted for Publication)

Scott, Paul ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2015) Entick v Carrington and the legal protection of property. In: Tomkins, Adam and Scott, Paul (eds.) Entick v Carrington: 250 Years of the Rule of Law. Series: Hart studies in comperative public law (9). Hart Publishing: Oxford, pp. 131-160. ISBN 9781849465588 (doi: 10.5040/9781474202268.ch-005)

Book Reviews

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2022) K D Ewing, Joan Mahoney and Andrew Moretta, MI5, The Cold War, and the Rule of Law. Edinburgh Law Review, 26(2), pp. 280-282. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2022.0772)[Book Review]

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2021) Writing the United Kingdom constitution. Parliaments, Estates and Representation, 41(1), pp. 126-127. (doi: 10.1080/02606755.2020.1767860)[Book Review]

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2020) Book review: (B)ordering Britain: Law, Race and Empire by Nadine El-Enany. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 71(2), [Book Review]

Scott, Paul F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2019) Parliament's Secret War by Veronika Fikfak and Hayley J Hooper. Public Law, 2019(1), pp. 228-232. [Book Review]

Scott, Paul ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2014) The Sovereignty of Law: Freedom, Constitution, and Common Law, by T.R.S. Allan, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), 361pp., hardback, £50.00, ISBN: 978-0-19-968506-6. Law Quarterly Review, 130, pp. 162-165. [Book Review]

Scott, Paul ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2011) Constitutional Review Under the UK Human Rights Act 1998, by Aileen Kavanagh, (Cambridge University Press, 2009), 455 pp., paperback, £34, ISBN: 978-0-52-168219-0. European Human Rights Law Review, 2011(6), pp. 752-754. [Book Review]

Scott, Paul ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (2011) NW Barber, The Constitutional State Oxford: Oxford University Press (www.oup.com), Oxford Constitutional Theory, 2010. xiii + 199 pp. ISBN 9780199585014. £50. Edinburgh Law Review, 15(3), pp. 484-486. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2011.0063)[Book Review]

Edited Books

Tomkins, Adam and Scott, Paul ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-7826 (Eds.) (2015) Entick v Carrington: 250 Years of the Rule of Law. Series: Hart studies in comperative public law. Hart Publishing: Oxford. ISBN 9781849465588

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Grants

Dr Scott has been awarded the following:

2018

£3,300 was awarded to Dr Scott by the Society of Legal Scholars small projects and events fund, for a workshop on 'Constitutional Legacies of Empire'.

£1,360 was awarded to Dr Scott by the 'SLS Research Activities Fund 2018', for a project entitled ' The First Interception Provision: an archival investigation of Section 4 of the Official Secrets Act 1920'.

Supervision

Beril Taskin Kapusuzoglu - 'Regulating the Regulators'

  • Kaya, Elif Busra
    How much administrative power is “bearable” in a judicial review within the UK’s constitutional order in the 21st century?

Teaching

Paul contributes to the teaching of Constitutional Law 1 and Law and Government. He convenes the Constitutional Law Honours module.